OHIO: How many absentee ballots? How many overvotes and ...

undervotes on punchcards?

All the pundits are buzzing about provisional ballots, but I haven't heard a word in many hours about absentee ballots.

Hours ago, I saw (probably on CNN) a Republican busybody disqualifying absentee ballots because "signatures did not match". Apparently, trying to make sure their votes would be counted, many older Ohioans fell into a trap of trying to vote absentee for the first time in many years since they registered to vote. But people's handwriting can deteriorate drastically over the course of ten, twenty, or thirty years.

Does anyone know anything about the number of Ohioans who tried to vote absentee? And how many were disqualified for various reasons?

When absentee ballots and punchcard undervotes and overvotes are added to provisional ballots, I should think they would total several times the artificial "lead" Blackwell and company have created for their Fuhrer. Under pressure from the media for resolution of the election, Blackwell must have figured that votes delayed could be votes--and recounts--denied.